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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

Jonathan Swift

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.

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