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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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
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
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
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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

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