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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

Jonathan Swift

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.

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