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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
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
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
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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