I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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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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