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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

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
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
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
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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 seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

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