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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

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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
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
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
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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

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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