There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFTPoor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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