For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath 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.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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