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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

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Bird Injury People Worth
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Discover Face
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Belief Reason Yourself
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

Break End Person Time
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fake Philosophy Truth
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness

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