Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFTFor in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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