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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Jonathan Swift

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Drink Dumb Man Talk
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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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Despair Hate Myself Proud
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Belief Reason Yourself
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself

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