The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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