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

Jonathan Swift

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ideas Man One Liner
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fly Kind Man Thinking
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Discover Face
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Growth Miracle Religion
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
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
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
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
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hard Need Rich
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection

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

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