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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Jonathan Swift

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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
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
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
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
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet

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