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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

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
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.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
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
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth

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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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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