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

Jonathan Swift

Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face

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