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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift

A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party

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