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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

Jonathan Swift

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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Belief Reason Yourself
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner

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