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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Conversation Reason Rule
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT

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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