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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Jonathan Swift

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
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
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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Care Decision Kind Law Legal Man Reason Record
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break Food Promise
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Goodness Reason Yourself

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