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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

Jonathan Swift

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
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

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