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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

Jonathan Swift

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
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
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

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