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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

Jonathan Swift

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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
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
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
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
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

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