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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Jonathan Swift

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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 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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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
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
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

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