No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
JONATHAN SWIFTDon’t set your wit against a child.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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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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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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