Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
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She 's no chicken she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.Jonathan Swift
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.
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Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage and they were always mortal enemies
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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
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One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
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Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown No more I hear my church's bell Than if it rang out for my knell At thunder now no more I start Than at the rumbling of a cart
Jonathan Swift
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