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.
JONATHAN SWIFTReligion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Every dog must have his day.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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