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Jonathan Swift Quotes: Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.
         

Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.


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Promise and pie-crust are made to be broken.
         



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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.



We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.



For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.



Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.



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.

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.



Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.



When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.



You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday



The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.



He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.





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To be in Vogue has to mean something



It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.

It's not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive.



He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.



What you sees, is what you gets.

What you sees, is what you gets.



When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.



He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.



What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.

What is hot now will not be hot tomorrow, I promise you. Trends are made to die. It's the truth.



In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.

In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.



I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.

I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.




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