Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFTHe was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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