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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
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
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk

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