Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFTPerverseness is your whole defence.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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