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

Jonathan Swift

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
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
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
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
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
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
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
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word

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