Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFTOne enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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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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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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