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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

Jonathan Swift

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
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
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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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Appearance Genius Himself True
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
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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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
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
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

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