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Books, the children of the brain.

Jonathan Swift

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
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
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Carry Human Kind Man Vice Wild
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man

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