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

Jonathan Swift

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
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
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst

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

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