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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Jonathan Swift

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason 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

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