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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Jonathan Swift

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
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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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Hungry Nation Poor Pride Proud
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
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
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
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
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
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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

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