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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

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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
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
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
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 as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
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
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud

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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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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