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Many a truth is told in jest.

Jonathan Swift

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
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
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
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
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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

Many a truth is told in jest.

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