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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise 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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
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.
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Advice Fall Food Taste 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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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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Art Easy Goodness People Room

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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