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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Jonathan Swift

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
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
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
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

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