Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFTFor to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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May you live all the days of your life.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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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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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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