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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent

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