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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Jonathan Swift

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
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
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
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
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
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

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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