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

Jonathan Swift

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality 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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Myself Old
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party

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