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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

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
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
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 was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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
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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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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.

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