It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever has been done before may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels, Part IV, Chapter V
1726
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"As for yourself, whom I have the honour to know, you are a person of distinction, and would have been an ornament to any court in Europe."
Controversial"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork."
Humorous"The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit."
Strange & Unusual"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
Strange & Unusual"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself."
Controversial