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.
JONATHAN SWIFTNothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Every dog must have his day.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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