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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift

There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner

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