No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
JONATHAN SWIFTWhen a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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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 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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