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

Jonathan Swift

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
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
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
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 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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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
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
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
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
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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself

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