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May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
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
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk 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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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

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