A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.
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In church your grandsire cut his throat to do the job too long he tarried he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.Jonathan Swift
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Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none if you flatter only one or two, you affront the rest.
Jonathan Swift
If a man should register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth, and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
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Laws are best explained, interpreted and applied by those whose interest and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding them
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Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
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