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• No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

  Jonathan Swift

  Money, Men, Every Man

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520

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• Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Shining, Good Nature

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• This Day, whate'er the Fates decree;
  Shall still be kept with Joy by me:
  This Day then, let us not be told,
  That you are sick, and I grown old

  Jonathan Swift

  Fate, Sick, Joy

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous poems”, p.500

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• That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.

  Jonathan Swift

  Envy, Common, Incessant

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.327

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• Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

  Jonathan Swift

  Giving, Guests, Able

  Jonathan Swift (1860). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.332

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• The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

  Jonathan Swift

  Differences, Mind, World

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.285

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• Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nurse, Miracle, Age

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.304

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• Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Pay, Literature

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.896, Delphi Classics

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• I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.

  Jonathan Swift

  Children, Food, Years

  A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burden to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public (1729)

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• For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Men, Doors

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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• The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Talking, Ideas

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• A favor is half granted, when graciously refused.

  Jonathan Swift

  Favors, Half, Granted

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• I have known some men possessed of good qualities which were very serviceable to others, but useless to themselves; like a sun-dial on the front of a house, to inform the neighbours and passengers, but not the owner within.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, House, Quality

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.516

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• Don't set your wit against a child.

  Jonathan Swift

  Education, Teacher, Children

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ... : with Notes, Historical and Critical”, p.279

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• A lie is an excuse guarded

  Jonathan Swift

  Lying, Excuse, Dare

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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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Success, Heaven

  Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh, 12 - 13 Aug. 1720 See Luther 3; Steele 2

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• Possession, they say, is eleven points of the law.

  Jonathan Swift

  Law, Eleven, Possession

  "Works". Volume XVII, p. 270,

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• The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Thinking, Flying

  "Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies". Book by Jonathan Swift, 1711-1726.

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• Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

  Jonathan Swift

  Wine, Judging, Temptation

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.612

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• Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Scarcity, Owing

  Jonathan Swift (1761). “The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin. Accurately Corrected by the Best Editions. With the Author's Life and Character; Notes Historical, Critical, and Explanatory; Tables of Contents, and Indexes. More Complete Than Any Preceding Edition. In Eight Volumes”, p.388

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• Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life, Tragedy, Life Is

  Jonathan Swift (1998). “The Sayings of Jonathan Swift”, p.18, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

  Jonathan Swift

  Justice, Judging, Office

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• Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

  Jonathan Swift

  Perfection, Simplicity, Style

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.310

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• The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.

  Jonathan Swift

  Gulliver, Doe, Watches

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• Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

  Jonathan Swift

  Life And Death, Giving, Physicians

  Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

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