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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason Yourself
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Despair Hate Myself Proud
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
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
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fate Person Reason Yourself

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