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

Jonathan Swift

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
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
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself

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

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