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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Jonathan Swift

I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
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
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
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
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
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
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
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

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