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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.

Jonathan Swift

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live 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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
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
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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

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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