Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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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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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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