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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Jonathan Swift

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
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
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
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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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
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
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
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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Art Easy Goodness People Room
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
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
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
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

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