We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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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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