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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.

Jonathan Swift

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
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.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
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 great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
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.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
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
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Experience Information Life Man Skills

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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