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

Jonathan Swift

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
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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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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
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
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
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
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
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See

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

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