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

Jonathan Swift

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
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
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
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
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

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