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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Jonathan Swift

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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
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
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 are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

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