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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Jonathan Swift

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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
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
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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small

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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