A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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Every dog must have his day.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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