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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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 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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth

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