War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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