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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy

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