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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.

Jonathan Swift

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
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
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
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
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
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride

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