Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
JONATHAN SWIFTMany a truth is told in jest.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Every dog must have his day.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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