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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Jonathan Swift

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
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.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
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
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
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
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
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

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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