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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.
— Jonathan Swift
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A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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