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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Jonathan Swift

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Talk Wild
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
JONATHAN SWIFT

Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick

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