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

Jonathan Swift

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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
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
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste 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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
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
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog 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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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

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