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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Jonathan Swift

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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 is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face

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