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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Jonathan Swift

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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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
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
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
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
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
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst

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