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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.

Jonathan Swift

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
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.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
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

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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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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