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

Jonathan Swift

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
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
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness

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