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

Jonathan Swift

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
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
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
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom

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

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