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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Jonathan Swift

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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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 bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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

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