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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.

Jonathan Swift

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy

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