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

Jonathan Swift

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
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
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
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
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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

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

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