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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Jonathan Swift

Perverseness is your whole defence.
JONATHAN SWIFT

One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

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