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

Jonathan Swift

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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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
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
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
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
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.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
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
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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

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