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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

Jonathan Swift

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
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
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule

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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