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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

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