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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

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
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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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Break End Person Time
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old

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