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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Jonathan Swift

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
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Myself Old
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
I 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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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent

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