War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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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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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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