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

Jonathan Swift

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
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
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
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Drink Dumb Man Talk
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
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
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
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Break End Person Time
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
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Age Experience Information Life Man Skills
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
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
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Best Doctor Happiness Quiet
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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

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

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