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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.

Jonathan Swift

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
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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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary

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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