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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Jonathan Swift

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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
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
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner

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