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Many a truth is told in jest.

Jonathan Swift

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
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

Many a truth is told in jest.

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