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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 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

Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
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
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money

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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