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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Jonathan Swift

Although 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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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
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
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk

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