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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
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
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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