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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Jonathan Swift

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision

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