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

Jonathan Swift

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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
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
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection

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

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