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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

Jonathan Swift

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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

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