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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Jonathan Swift

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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Insect Life Live Misery
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Better Man Money
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
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Genius Himself True
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
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
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Art Easy Goodness People Room
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Learning Wind Word
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break Food Promise
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
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
Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Alone Company Deep People Wisdom

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