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.
JONATHAN SWIFTPolitics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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 worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Books, the children of the brain.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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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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