Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFTAlthough the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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