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

Jonathan Swift

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
May you live all the days of your life.
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Day Life Live Yourself
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility

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