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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Jonathan Swift

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
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
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
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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 the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War

I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

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