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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Jonathan Swift

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
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
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
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth

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