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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Jonathan Swift

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fly Kind Man Thinking
Perverseness is your whole defence.
JONATHAN SWIFT

One Liner Perseverance Protection
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Growth Miracle Religion
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Gold Man Strength Weakness
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.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Genius Himself True

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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