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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
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
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking

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