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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Jonathan Swift

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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
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
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
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
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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

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