Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Every dog must have his day.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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