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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
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 are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
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
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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