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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.

Jonathan Swift

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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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
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
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
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
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor 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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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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