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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Jonathan Swift

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
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
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
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 is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision

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