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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
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
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion

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