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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
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
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World

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