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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

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
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
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
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
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
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
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
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself

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