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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Jonathan Swift

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
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
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
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

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