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

Jonathan Swift

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility

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

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