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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fate Person Reason Yourself
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Life Live Yourself
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Despair Hate Myself Proud
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Better Man Money
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Bold Eat Food Man
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hard Need Rich
Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Book Children Head One Liner
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Madness Place Price Sold
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mistake Person Responsibility
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
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fly Kind Man Thinking
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Coward Heaven Rich Value
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Mad Money Party
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Art Easy Goodness People Room
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Desire Life Old Oneself
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary

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