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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
- Jonathan Swift
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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.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Men
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
- Jonathan Swift
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
- Jonathan Swift
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It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Kingdom
#Mistake
#Voice
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
- Jonathan Swift
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
- Jonathan Swift
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
- Jonathan Swift
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Books, the children of the brain.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Children
#Education
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Manners
Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Judgment
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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Money
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
- Jonathan Swift
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Love
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#Us
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Style
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#Words
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
- Jonathan Swift
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
- Jonathan Swift
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Laws
#Legal
#Small
#Through
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
- Jonathan Swift
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Reason
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Food
#Made
#Promises
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
- Jonathan Swift
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#First
#Food
#Man
#Oyster
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Diet
#Doctor
#Quiet
#World
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Invisible
#Others
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Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
- Jonathan Swift
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May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Days
#Life
#Live
#Your
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- Jonathan Swift
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#Live
#Long
#Man
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