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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

Jonathan Swift

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet

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