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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift

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

Fly Kind Man Thinking
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hard Need Rich
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 never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fate Person Reason Yourself
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fake Philosophy Truth
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Desire Life Old Oneself
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Insect Life Live Misery
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Believe Occasion Time Work
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man One Liner Wisdom Young

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