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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

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy

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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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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