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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking

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