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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

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