For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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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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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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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