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

Jonathan Swift

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Human Nature Oneself Talent
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word
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
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Affect Betrayal Fake Man Truth
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
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
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Gold Man Strength Weakness
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
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
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
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
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Mad Money Party
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
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
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 useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Himself Man Reason
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
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

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