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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Jonathan Swift

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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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