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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Jonathan Swift

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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work

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