May you live all the days of your life.
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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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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For 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.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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