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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

Jonathan Swift

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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 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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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation

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