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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Jonathan Swift

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
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
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People

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