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Every dog must have his day.

Jonathan Swift

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
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
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time

Every dog must have his day.

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