The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFTAy, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Every dog must have his day.
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