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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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
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
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich

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