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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Jonathan Swift

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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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