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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

Jonathan Swift

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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 the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
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
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
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills

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