Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
~ Jonathan Swift
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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.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Hail fellow, well met.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Reason is a very light rider and easily shook off.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
~ Jonathan Swift
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It is impossible that any thing so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Hail fellow, well met.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly.
~ Jonathan Swift
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The latter part of a wise man’s life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices, and false opinions he had contracted in the former.
~ Jonathan Swift
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