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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.

Jonathan Swift

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
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
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
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
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
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst

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