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.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Books, the children of the brain.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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