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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
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

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