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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Jonathan Swift

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
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
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
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality 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

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