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

Jonathan Swift

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
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
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Human Nature Oneself Talent
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break Insect Law Small
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Coward Heaven Rich Value
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break End Person Time
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ideas Man One Liner
Every dog must have his day.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Dog One Liner
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Coward Cruelty People
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blind Eyes See
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Art Easy Goodness People Room

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