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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Jonathan Swift

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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 were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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