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

Jonathan Swift

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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
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
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
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking

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