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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
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
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small

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