Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFTMay you live all the days of your life.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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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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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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