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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Jonathan Swift

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.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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
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 the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
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.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule

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