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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.

Jonathan Swift

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself

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