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Quote by Jonathan Swift
A lie is an excuse guarded. - Jonathan Swift

A lie is an excuse guarded. – Jonathan Swift

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. – Jonathan Swift

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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. – Jonathan Swift

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Age
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. – Jonathan Swift

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Excuses
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The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse. – Benjamin Franklin

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Excuses

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse. – Florence Nightingale

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Excuses

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. – A.A. (Alan Alexandra) Milne

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Excuses

How strange to use “You only live once” as an excuse to throw it away. – Bill Copeland

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Excuses

Random Quotes

If little else, the brain is an educational toy. – Tom Robbins

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The Dead was cool, Its a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me. – Matthew McGrory

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All profoundly original art looks ugly at first. – Clement Greenberg

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If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. Thats not called capitalism, thats called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie. – Michael Moore

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