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

Jonathan Swift

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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
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
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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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

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