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

Jonathan Swift

Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word

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