For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

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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
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Fate Person Reason Yourself
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
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Head Heart Man Wisdom
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
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
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
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
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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 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
The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Best Bird Injury People Worth
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

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