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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
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

Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
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
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
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Art Invisible See Vision

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