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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.

Jonathan Swift

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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
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
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself

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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