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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Jonathan Swift

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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Perverseness is your whole defence.
JONATHAN SWIFT

One Liner Perseverance Protection
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason Yourself
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Corruption Politics Understand Word

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