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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.

Jonathan Swift

There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
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
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
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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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time

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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