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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Jonathan Swift

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
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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Appearance Genius Himself True
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself

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