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.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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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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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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