Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFTMany a truth is told in jest.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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