Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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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.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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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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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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