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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

Jonathan Swift

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’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
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
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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
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 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
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
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
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst

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