Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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