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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Jonathan Swift

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

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