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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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 are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
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
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

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