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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

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
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
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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

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

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