Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.


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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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A college joke to cure the dumps.
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He was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.
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They never would hear, But turn the deaf ear, As a matter they had no concern in.
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Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em. [Lat., Libertas et natale solum.]
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand
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Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perver...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
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A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone
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War is the child of Pride, and Pride the daughter of Riches.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed
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Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer an...
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruption.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
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A lie is an excuse guarded
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
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When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest
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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not we are told expressly
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Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion
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Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titill...
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All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this ye...
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In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends
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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
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Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
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Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller...
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The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowde...
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