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Perverseness is your whole defence.

Jonathan Swift

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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 is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old

Perverseness is your whole defence.

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