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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Jonathan Swift

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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Belief Reason Yourself
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself

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