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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
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
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young

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