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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Jonathan Swift

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason Yourself

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

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