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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Jonathan Swift

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
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
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
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
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
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
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
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

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