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

Jonathan Swift

The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection

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