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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.

Jonathan Swift

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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

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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