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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.

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
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
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
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ideas Man One Liner

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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