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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.

Jonathan Swift

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Drink Dumb Man Talk
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Fly Kind Man Thinking

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