Perverseness is your whole defence.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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