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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

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.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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 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

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