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

Jonathan Swift

Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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
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
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
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
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner

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

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