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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.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
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
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
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
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
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection

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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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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