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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Jonathan Swift

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

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