No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
JONATHAN SWIFTNothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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