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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Jonathan Swift

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Art Easy Goodness People Room
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
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
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
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
Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Art Invisible See Vision
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Age Desire Life Old Oneself
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Madness Place Price Sold
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
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

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