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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
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
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
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

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