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

Jonathan Swift

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
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
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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

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