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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

Jonathan Swift

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
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself

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