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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Jonathan Swift

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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
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
Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One Liner Perseverance Protection
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary
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 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
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Clothes Funny Head Money Myself Poor Time
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Enough Hate Love Oneself Religion
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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Choice Hesitation Language Man Mindset Talk Vocabulary Woman Word
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
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

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