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

Jonathan Swift

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
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
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
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
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

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