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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Jonathan Swift

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth

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