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" It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. "
Jonathan Swift
Sometimes
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" 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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" What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. "
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Ignorant
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" Every dog must have his day. "
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Must
His
" 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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Sit
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" Don't set your wit against a child. "
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" There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. "
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Will
Themselves
" 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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Like
Feet
" The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. "
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Opinions
False
Wise
" Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced. "
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Will
Good
" Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. "
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Like
Life
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Been
Own
" When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. "
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Heart
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" 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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Evil
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" He was a bold man that first ate an oyster. "
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Man
Oyster
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Brain
Books
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Wine
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