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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Jonathan Swift

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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision

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