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When we desire anything, our minds run wholly on the good circumstances of it; when'tis obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
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Aphorisms by Jonathan Swift
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Few are qualified to shine in company; but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs; all which reduced to writing would entirely confound orthography.
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The only invention of late years which hath contributed towards politeness in discourse is that of abbreviating, or reducing words of many syllables into one by lopping off the rest.
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Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.
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A regard for fame becomes a man more towards the exit than at his entrance into life.
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I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.
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By the time that an author hath written out a book, he and his readers are become old acquaintants.
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No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practices contradict his profession; not upon small surmises.
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