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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Jonathan Swift

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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fate Person Reason Yourself
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud

I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

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