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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift

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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face

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