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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Jonathan Swift

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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
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
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary

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