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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

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