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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Jonathan Swift

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
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
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party

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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