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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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"Knowing your ignorance is better than your knowledge."

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"All answers to life's key questions are found within."

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"A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred."

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"Pleasure is a kind servant, but a cruel master."

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"Wisdom is the greatest speaker in history; nature, second. Folly is the worst speaker in history; fools, second."

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"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"

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Amber Hurdle

"True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible."

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"If your thirst for knowledge is strong enough, you will find the waters to satisfy it."

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"A small idea with wings will take you higher than a big one with legs."

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"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."
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"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."
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"And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together."
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"I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution."
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"They say fingers were made before forks and hands before knives."
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"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
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"We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
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"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind."
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"Here commences a new dominion acquired with a title by divine right. Ships are sent with the first opportunity; the natives driven out or destroyed; their princes tortured to discover their gold; a free license given to all acts of inhumanity and lust, the earth reeking with the blood of its inhabitants: and this execrable crew of butchers, employed in so pious an expedition, is a modern colony, sent to convert and civilize an idolatrous and barbarous people!"
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"If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time."
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