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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
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
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
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
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
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

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