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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Jonathan Swift

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
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
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
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
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
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
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
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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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