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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 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
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
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 useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
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
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner

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

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