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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

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Head Heart Man Wisdom
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth

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