It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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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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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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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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