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Don’t set your wit against a child.

Jonathan Swift

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
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
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
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
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
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
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
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
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

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