Many a truth is told in jest.
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More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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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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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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