No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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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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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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