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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

Jonathan Swift

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children 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
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
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
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
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself

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