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

Jonathan Swift

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
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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 best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break Insect Law Small
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
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
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
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
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
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Belief Reason Yourself

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

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