Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
JONATHAN SWIFTLaws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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