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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

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
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
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Easy Light Reason Ride

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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