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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Jonathan Swift

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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom

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