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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
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
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst

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