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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 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
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
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
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
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
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
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

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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