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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Jonathan Swift

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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
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
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time

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