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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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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
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
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
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
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
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
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
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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

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