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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Jonathan Swift

Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
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
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
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
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
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
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party

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