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" If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel. "
Jonathan Swift
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Heaven
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" 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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" Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding. "
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" Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. "
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" What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly. "
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" We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. "
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" I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. "
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" Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth. "
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" Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. "
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" For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. "
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" Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. "
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" 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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" A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle. "
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" The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style. "
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Words
True
" A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. "
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" As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. "
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" Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. "
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" 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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" 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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" A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. "
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