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

Jonathan Swift

Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason 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

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