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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.

Jonathan Swift

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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Conversation Reason Rule
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
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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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy

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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