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.
JONATHAN SWIFTParty is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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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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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 are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFT