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Perverseness is your whole defence.

Jonathan Swift

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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
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
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
JONATHAN SWIFT

One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
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
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder

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