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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
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
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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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Age Growth Miracle Religion

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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