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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.

Jonathan Swift

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.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
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
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word

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