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Perverseness is your whole defence.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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
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
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet

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