Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFTPolitics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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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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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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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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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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