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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Jonathan Swift

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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
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
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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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