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Jonathan Swift -
“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”2.
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“Vision - The art of seeing things invisible.”3.
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“Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveler just returned from abroad.”4.
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“The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.”5.
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“Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.”6.
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“Most sorts of diversion, in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting.”7.
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“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, And so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.”8.
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“Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisions of life, and are allured by their Appetites to their destruction.”9.
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“He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.”10.
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“Books, the children of the brain.”11.
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“Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.”12.
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“Ambition is a vice which often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.”13.
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“A fool can ask more questions than the wisest can answer.”14.
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“It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.”15.
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“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”16.
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“I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.”17.
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“Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.”18.
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“The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by looping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.”19.
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“Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.”20.
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“Faith, that's as well said, as if I had said it myself.”21.
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“Bachelor's fare: Bread and cheese, and kisses.”22.
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“Satire is a kind of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.”23.
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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.”24.
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“There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.”25.
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“It is is men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.”
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