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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

Jonathan Swift

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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
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
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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

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