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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.

Jonathan Swift

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
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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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
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
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
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
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner

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