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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

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand 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
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
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

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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