Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFTPromises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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