It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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