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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

Jonathan Swift

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
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
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Discover Face
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
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Genius Himself True
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People

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