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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
Perverseness is your whole defence.
JONATHAN SWIFT

One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Discover Face
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Conversation Reason Rule
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fly Kind Man Thinking

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