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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.

Jonathan Swift

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
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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Appearance Genius Himself True
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
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.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word

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