Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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 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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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Every dog must have his day.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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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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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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