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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

Jonathan Swift

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
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 is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
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
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
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
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Correction Himself Man Opinion Reason Sick
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself

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