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

Jonathan Swift

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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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