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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
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
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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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud

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