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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Jonathan Swift

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
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
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Despair Hate Myself Proud
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Art Easy Goodness People Room
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

Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
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
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy

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