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May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
Life
May
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift
Nothing
Want
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Jonathan Swift
Men
Gold
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
Jonathan Swift
Satire
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Jonathan Swift
Diet
Doctors
Quiet
World
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift
Life
Opinions
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift
Power
Success
Fortune
Merit
Prudence
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift
Style
Words
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Jonathan Swift
Feet
Want
The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Jonathan Swift
Belief
Want
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift
Mistake
Will
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Jonathan Swift
Humility
Pride
Vanity
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift
Art
Vision
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
Jonathan Swift
Love
Religion
Hate
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift
Power