There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Jonathan Swift

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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
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Drink Dumb Man Talk
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blind Eyes See
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Bold Eat Food Man

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

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