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

Jonathan Swift

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
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
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System

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