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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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

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