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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

Jonathan Swift

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself

This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

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