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Books, the children of the brain.

Jonathan Swift

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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
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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Best Conversation Reason Rule
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
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

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