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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift

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
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion

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