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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility

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