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Perverseness is your whole defence.

Jonathan Swift

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
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
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
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
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
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
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk

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