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If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. ↗

— David Swift

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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#appears #confederacy #dunces #genius #him

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#consent #definition #governed #reason #slavery

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#head #heart #his #man #should

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#catch #cobwebs #flies #laws #like

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

#been #man #never #own #saying

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#bad manners #company #example #flatter #flattery

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#conceive #hard #how #nothing #others

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#mistake #own #themselves #very #will