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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.

Jonathan Swift

Every dog must have his day.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Dog One Liner
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
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
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
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
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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 best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
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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Coward Heaven Rich Value
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break End Person Time
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild

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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