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Jonathan Swift

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
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.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
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
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary

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