For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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