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

Jonathan Swift

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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
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
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
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild

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