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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Jonathan Swift

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst

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