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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

Jonathan Swift

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
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
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word

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