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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Jonathan Swift

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Consistency One Liner World
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break End Person Time
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Life Live Yourself
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break Food Promise
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Conversation Reason Rule
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Believe Occasion Time Work
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Himself Man Reason
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent

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