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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
Promises
Jonathan Swift

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Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
Uncategorised
Jonathan Swift

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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
Reason
Jonathan Swift

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She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
Dress
Jonathan Swift

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Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
Writers and Writing
Jonathan Swift

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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
Doctors
Jonathan Swift

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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
Belief
Jonathan Swift

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The most positive men are the most credulous.
Credulity
Jonathan Swift

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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Style
Jonathan Swift

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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
Mistakes
Jonathan Swift

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There's none so blind as they that won't see.
Blindness
Jonathan Swift

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
Friends and Friendship
Jonathan Swift

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Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
Vanity
Jonathan Swift

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Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Vision
Jonathan Swift

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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
Disease
Jonathan Swift

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Humor
Jonathan Swift

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What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
Heaven
Jonathan Swift

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun