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Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
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A weapon is an enemy even to its owner
TURKISH PROVERB
a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
A great fortune is a great slavery.
UNKNOWN
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P. J. O'ROURKE
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
HONORE DE BALZAC
Freedom ends when it enslaves.
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T. J. MILLER
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
CHINESE PROVERB
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
CHINESE PROVERB
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
CHINESE PROVERBS
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
GEORGE HERBERT
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
FRANCIS BACON
Behind every great fortune there is a crime
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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Serene yet strong, majestic yet sedate, Swift without violence, without terror great.
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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
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A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence.
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Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.
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Brain is the worlds first quantum computer, made of its owner architects.
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The sense that God is the real owner of wealth makes its earning a pious activity.
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The more use a couch gets, the more it loses shape; as too does its owner.
STEVEN MORETTI
The old Fortune 50 companies have great benefits.
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Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
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Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
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We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
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Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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The most positive men are the most credulous.
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May you live every day of your life.
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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
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Don't set your wit against a child.
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Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
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But when low dunces will ...
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What some people invent the rest enlarge.
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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
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Come, agree, the law's costly.
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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
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I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
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I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
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I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
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Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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How we apples swim.
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Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
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Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!
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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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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
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What some invent the rest enlarge.
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I heard the little bird say so.
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A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller sti...
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
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Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak; The delight of old and young, ...
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Bread is the staff of life.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
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As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules ...
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The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies.
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I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
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What some invent, the rest enlarge.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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A college joke to cure the dumps.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
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He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
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When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in c...
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT
When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in co...
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We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonath...
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An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, whic...
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Hail, fellow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man...
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They never would hear, But turn the deaf ear, As a matter they had no concern in.
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em. [Lat., Libertas et natale solum.]
JONATHAN SWIFT
Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
JONATHAN SWIFT
'Tis an old maxim in the schools, That flattery's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men...
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Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem
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May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have...
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I row after health like a waterman...
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonab...
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Whoever wishes to win in this game must have patience and money, since the values are so little cons...
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he i...
JONATHAN SWIFT
The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand
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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
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I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth
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For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
JONATHAN SWIFT
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Every dog must have his day.
JONATHAN SWIFT
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonab...
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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to for...
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Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perver...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
JONATHAN SWIFT
A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone
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War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed
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Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer an...
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
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A lie is an excuse guarded
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
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When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly
JONATHAN SWIFT
Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion
JONATHAN SWIFT
Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titill...
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All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this ye...
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In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller...
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