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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.

Jonathan Swift

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.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money

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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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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