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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Jonathan Swift

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mad Money Party
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
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.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner

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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