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Jonathan Swift

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

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

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"If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!"

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"We are a little land. And little lands on the borders of a great empire were always hateful to the lords of the great empire. He longs to blot them out, gobble them up."

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"If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!"

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"Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!"

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"Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don't know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out!"

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"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."
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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
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"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."
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"Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly."
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"The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome."
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"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."
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"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
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"Observation is an old man's memory."
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"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."
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"Yet, Malice never was his Aim;He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent,Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct...Verses on the death of Dr Swift."
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