One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTMany a truth is told in jest.
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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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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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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