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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

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
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
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
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
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
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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