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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

Jonathan Swift

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Head Heart Man Wisdom
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason Yourself
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fate Person Reason Yourself
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Myself Old
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Believe Occasion Time Work

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