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 SWIFTVision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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.
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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.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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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.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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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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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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