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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Jonathan Swift

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
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
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

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