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

Jonathan Swift

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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

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