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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Jonathan Swift

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break End Person Time
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
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
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
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Life Live Yourself
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild

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