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

Jonathan Swift

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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
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
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
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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

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