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Jonathan Swift

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."

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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."

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"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even."

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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

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"Good habits are worth being fanatical about."

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

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"I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen."

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"Thinking you're immortal is weirdly similar to being immortal."

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"Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create."

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"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."
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"Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced."
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"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
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"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."
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"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."
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"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
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"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride."
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"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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"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead."
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"I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs."
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