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When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
— Jonathan Swift
Tags: adversity

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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
— Jonathan Swift
Tags: person, money, wise, heart
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
— Jonathan Swift
Tags: poor, will, proud, rich
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
— Jonathan Swift
Tags: riches, thing, valuable, heaven
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
— Jonathan Swift
Tags: want, like, feet, shoes
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
— Jonathan Swift
Tags: satire, discover, glass, own, face
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