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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Jonathan Swift

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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 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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
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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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word

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