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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Jonathan Swift

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
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break End Person Time
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mistake Person Responsibility
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Myself Old
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
Every dog must have his day.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Dog One Liner
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Discover Face
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mad Money Party
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Bird Injury People Worth
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Art Invisible See Vision
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man One Liner Wisdom Young
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Coward Heaven Rich Value

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