Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Every dog must have his day.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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