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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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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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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Life Live Yourself
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old

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