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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Jonathan Swift

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People

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