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Every dog must have his day.

Jonathan Swift

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
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
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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 the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery

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