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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy

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