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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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
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
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
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
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion

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