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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

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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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

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