And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
JONATHAN SWIFTFor to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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