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Jonathan Swift

"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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"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."

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"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."

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"Out of clutter, find simplicity."

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"Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature."

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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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"We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same."
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"I heard the little bird say so."
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"When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against."
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