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

Jonathan Swift

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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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

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