I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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