Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFTMany a truth is told in jest.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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 the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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