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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Jonathan Swift

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person 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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking

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