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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Jonathan Swift

I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Myself Old
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Corruption Politics Understand Word
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mad Money Party
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Learning Wind Word
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Book Children Head One Liner
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blind Eyes See
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Belief Reason Yourself
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ideas Man One Liner
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mistake Person Responsibility

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