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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Jonathan Swift

It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
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
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
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
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
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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

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