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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

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

Category:
Intelligence
Author
Jonathan Swift
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Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. – Jonathan Swift

Category:
Carpe Diem
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Jonathan Swift
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Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybodys face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. – Jonathan Swift

Category:
Satire
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Jonathan Swift
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Other Quotes from
Excuses
category

There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Excuses

No one ever excused his way to success. – Dave Del Dotto

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Excuses

Bad men excuse their faults; good men abandon them. – Author Unknown

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Excuses

We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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Excuses

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