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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

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
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner 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
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
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
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
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
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy

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