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

Jonathan Swift

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
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
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
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
Books, the children of the brain.
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Book Children Head One Liner
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
Every dog must have his day.
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Day Dog One Liner
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
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
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People

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