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

Jonathan Swift

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
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
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion

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

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