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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.

Jonathan Swift

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
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
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
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
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

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