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

Jonathan Swift

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face

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