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Books, the children of the brain.

Jonathan Swift

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
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
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking

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