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Jonathan Swift

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Learning Wind Word
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Better Man Money
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent

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