May you live all the days of your life.
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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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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 the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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