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

Jonathan Swift

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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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
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
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
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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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