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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.

Jonathan Swift

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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
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
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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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Gold Man Strength Weakness

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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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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