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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Jonathan Swift

An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason Yourself
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mistake Person Responsibility
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

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

Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Learning Wind Word
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
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
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Coward Cruelty People
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break Insect Law Small
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Discover Face
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blind Eyes See
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

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