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

Jonathan Swift

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

Insect Life Live Misery
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Myself Old
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason 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 impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
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
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
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
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
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
Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blind Eyes See
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Despair Hate Myself Proud
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man One Liner Wisdom Young

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