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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

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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility

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