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.
JONATHAN SWIFTI 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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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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