One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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Every dog must have his day.
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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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