Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Every dog must have his day.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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