Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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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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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 you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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