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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

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
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
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People

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