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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
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
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk

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