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

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 wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
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
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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
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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue

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