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"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."
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"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."
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"The door of Reverend Verringer's impressive manse is opened by an elderly female with a face like a pine plank; the Reverend is unmarried, and has need of an irreproachable housekeeper. Simon is ushered into the library. It is so self-consciously the right sort of library that he has an urge to set fire to it."
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"This book was written using 100% recycled words."
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"Punctuality is the thief of time."
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"U.S. News Organizations observe the anniversary of September 11 with investigations about the nation's continuing vulnerability to terrorism. First, the New York Daily News reports that two of its reporters carried box cutters, razor knives, and pepper spray on fourteen commercial flights without getting caught. Then ABC News reports that it smuggled fifteen pounds of uranium into New York City. Then Fox News reports that it flew Osama bin Laden to Washington, D.C., and videotaped him touring the White House."
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"The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect."
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"He couldn't get into Harvard even if he had the dean's wife at gunpoint."
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"I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours."
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"New York: A third-rate Babylon."
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"He [Old Mr. Turveydrop] was a fat old gentleman with a false complexion, false teeth, false whiskers, and a wig. He had a fur collar, and he had a padded breast to his coat, which only wanted a star or a broad blue ribbon to be complete. He was pinched in, and swelled out, and got up, and strapped down, as much as he could possibly bear."
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"There's none so blind as they that won't see."
Insight
"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
Being
"No wise man ever wished to be younger."
Man
"The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting."
Observation
"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
Politics
"One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good."
Friendship
"If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel."
Heaven
"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes."
Nature
"The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome."
Trust
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
Reason
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