No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
JONATHAN SWIFTAnd surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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