No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.Jonathan Swift
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There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Your notions of friendship are new to me I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.
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She wears her clothes as if they are thrown on with a pitchfork
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