Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFTPromises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Every dog must have his day.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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