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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift

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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
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
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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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