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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Jonathan Swift

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
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
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe

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