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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
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 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
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
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
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
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
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
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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 tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold

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