He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFTAn idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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