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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Jonathan Swift

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Desire Life Old Oneself
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Art Invisible See Vision
Perverseness is your whole defence.
JONATHAN SWIFT

One Liner Perseverance Protection
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Insect Life Live Misery
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Art Easy Goodness People Room
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

Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Consistency One Liner World
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Human Nature Oneself Talent
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection

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