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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Jonathan Swift

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
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
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

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