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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Jonathan Swift

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason Yourself
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

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