Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFTI never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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