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.
JONATHAN SWIFTHe was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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