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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Jonathan Swift

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
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.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Drink Dumb Man Talk
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Life Live Yourself
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Conversation Reason Rule

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