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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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