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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.

Jonathan Swift

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
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

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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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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