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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Jonathan Swift

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision

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