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

Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion

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