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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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

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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