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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief 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
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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