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Don’t set your wit against a child.

Jonathan Swift

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
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
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
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time

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