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.
JONATHAN SWIFTIf Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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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.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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