Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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