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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
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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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
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
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself

And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

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