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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Jonathan Swift

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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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
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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Gold Man Strength Weakness
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

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