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

Jonathan Swift

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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
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
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
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 man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason 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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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
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
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery

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