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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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
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
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 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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
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

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