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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Jonathan Swift

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
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
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
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
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

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