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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

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
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Gold Man Strength Weakness
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Despair Hate Myself Proud
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Madness Place Price Sold

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

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