"Nothing is more generally exploded than the folly……" — Jonathan Swift
"Nothing is more generally exploded than the folly of talking too much."
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271 Quotes by Jonathan Swift
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales…
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his…
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
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History is a record of exploded ideas.
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As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.
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Wherever modern Science has exploded a superstitious fable or even a picturesque error, she has replaced it with a grander…
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It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement…
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It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution…
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Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of…
— E. O. Wilson
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up…
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Happy birthday to former First Lady Barbara Bush, who turned seventy-seven this week. Unfortunately, where her granddaughters helped blow out…
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There's a wealth of literature out there which, hopefully, will be, you know, exploded in the future, and I personally…
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I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die.…
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Our entire universe emerged from a point smaller than a single atom. Space itself exploded in a cosmic fire, launching the expansion of the universe and…
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I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.
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