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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Jonathan Swift

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
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
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

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