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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

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
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hard Need Rich
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mad Money Party
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
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
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ideas Man One Liner
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break Food Promise
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Growth Miracle Religion
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Bold Eat Food Man
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Easy Light Reason Ride
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Myself Old

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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