Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFTI never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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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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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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