It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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