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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
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
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
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
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
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Best Doctor Happiness Quiet

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