Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFTDon’t set your wit against a child.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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And 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.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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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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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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