"It is the folly of too many..." - Quote by Jonathan Swift
It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
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“I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.”
“A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”
“By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.”
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“In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.”
“All the media and the politicians ever talk about is things that separate us, things that make us different from one another”
“It is my deepest conviction that the children should be seen and heard as our most treasured assets.”
More on Perception
“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
“You can only see in others what is inside of you.”
“The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.”