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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Jonathan Swift

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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself

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