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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.

Jonathan Swift

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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

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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