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

Jonathan Swift

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
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
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
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
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
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
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

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

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