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

Jonathan Swift

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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
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
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

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