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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

Jonathan Swift

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

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