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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
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
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
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
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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

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

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