Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
JONATHAN SWIFT
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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