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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
Jonathan Swift
Government
Reason
Slavery
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
Flies
Laws
May
A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
Jonathan Swift
Money
Heart
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
Men
Strength
Gold
Weakness
As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift
Fool
Man
May
Modesty
Sense
Will
Woman
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Jonathan Swift
Love
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Jonathan Swift
Liquor
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
Jonathan Swift
Madness
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
Art
People
Manners
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Jonathan Swift
Man
Saying
Today
Wrong
Yesterday
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
Man
Old
Wishes
Every dog must have his day.
Jonathan Swift
Day
Don't set your wit against a child.
Jonathan Swift
Wit
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Jonathan Swift
Being
Censure
Tax
Man
Public
Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift
Books
Children