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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.

Jonathan Swift

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Easy Light Reason Ride
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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

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