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

Jonathan Swift

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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness

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