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

Jonathan Swift

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
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
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
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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
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

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