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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Jonathan Swift

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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself

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