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Books, the children of the brain.

Jonathan Swift

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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
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
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
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
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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Best Bird Injury People Worth
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility

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