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Jonathan Swift
1667-1745. Irish writer, poet and satirist.
1. "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
source: "Thoughts On Various Subjects"
categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- God and Religion
categories: Wisdom and Stupidity
3. "The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."
categories: Health and Alcohol
4. "Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style."
categories: Manners and Ethics
5. "Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
categories: Law and Crime
6. "Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."
categories: Talent and Genius -:- Youth and Age
7. "Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse."
categories: Manners and Ethics
8. "Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."
categories: Youth and Age
9. "Books, the children of the brain."
source: "A Tale Of A Tub"
categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Education
10. "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
categories: Optimism and Hope
11. "A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Normality and Madness
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