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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

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
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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
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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
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

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