Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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