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" There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. "
Jonathan Swift
Sit
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Pants
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" No wise man ever wished to be younger. "
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" It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. "
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" Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. "
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" May you live all the days of your life. "
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" We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. "
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" I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning. "
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" As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. "
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" There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. "
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Been
Own
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Old
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" For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. "
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Government
Without
" I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. "
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Country
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" Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. "
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Age
Live
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Lie
Position
" We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. "
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Our
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