Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFTOne enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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 have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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