Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFTPower is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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