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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

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
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
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
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
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
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
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
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Age Myself Old
Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Happy Life Live Opportunity Talk Yourself
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
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
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery

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