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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift

May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word

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