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.
JONATHAN SWIFTAle is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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