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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Jonathan Swift

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
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
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
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
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
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
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Man Talk Wild
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
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
It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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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