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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
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich

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