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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

Jonathan Swift

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
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
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind 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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
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
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.

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