Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
JONATHAN SWIFTVision is seeing the invisible.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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.
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Every dog must have his day.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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