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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
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
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
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

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