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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Growth Miracle Religion
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Gold Man Strength Weakness
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Life Live Yourself
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Desire Life Old Oneself
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Game Love Mad Play War
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mad Money Party

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