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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.

Jonathan Swift

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk 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
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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
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
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection

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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