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Books, the children of the brain.

Jonathan Swift

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.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
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
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom

Books, the children of the brain.

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