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

Jonathan Swift

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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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason 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
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
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking

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

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