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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Jonathan Swift

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself

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