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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
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
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Bird Injury People Worth

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