For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFTReligion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Every dog must have his day.
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