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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Jonathan Swift

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
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 wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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

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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