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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

Jonathan Swift

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
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
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
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
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
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
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money

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