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Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1667 - 1745)
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When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

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.

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.



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

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

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