I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
JONATHAN SWIFTHow is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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