No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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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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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.
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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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