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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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
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
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
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 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
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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