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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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
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
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

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