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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Jonathan Swift

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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Best Bird Injury People Worth
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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