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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Jonathan Swift

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Insect Life Live Misery
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Madness Place Price Sold
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
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

Believe Occasion Time Work
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break Insect Law Small
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
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Corruption Politics Understand Word
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mad Money Party

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