An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFTPolitics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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