Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
JONATHAN SWIFT