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

Jonathan Swift

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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
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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Best Bird Injury People Worth
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
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst

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