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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Jonathan Swift

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
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
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
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

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