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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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
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
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

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

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