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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Jonathan Swift

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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
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

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