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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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