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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.

Jonathan Swift

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
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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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog 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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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
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

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