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

Jonathan Swift

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
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
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word

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