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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

Jonathan Swift

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
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
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 is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.

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