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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
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
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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

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