I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
JONATHAN SWIFTFor in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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