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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.

Jonathan Swift

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
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
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
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
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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 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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom

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