There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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