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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift

How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
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
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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 are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War

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