When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore
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Faith He must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.Jonathan Swift
What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.
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All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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War that mad game the world so loves to play.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that all the dunces are in confederation against him.
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