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

Jonathan Swift

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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

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

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