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

Jonathan Swift

Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
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 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
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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
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
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
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion

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