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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Jonathan Swift

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
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
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
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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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
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 bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money

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