Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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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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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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