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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

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