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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Jonathan Swift

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
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
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold

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