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

Jonathan Swift

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
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Desire Live Man Old Philosophy
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Break Insect Law Small
War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Game Love Mad Play War
No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Better Man Money
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
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
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 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
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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Government Meaning Politics Reason Slavery
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
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
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
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World

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

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