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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Jonathan Swift

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
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
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection

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