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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

Jonathan Swift

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
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
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
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet

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