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

Jonathan Swift

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
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
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
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

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

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