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

Jonathan Swift

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
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
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner 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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself

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

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