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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Easy Light Reason Ride
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break Insect Law Small
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason Yourself

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