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

Jonathan Swift

Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
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
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
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
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children 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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder

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

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