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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

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
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner

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

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