Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFTPolitics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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