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Don’t set your wit against a child.

Jonathan Swift

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

Man Talk Wild
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFT

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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Life Live Yourself
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break Food Promise
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Genius Himself True
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason Yourself
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner

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