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

Jonathan Swift

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
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
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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Hard Need Rich
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
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth

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