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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.

Jonathan Swift

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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Bold Eat Food Man
Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Break Food Promise
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
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
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Goodness Reason Yourself
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Death Judgement Life Reason Religion
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Coward Heaven Rich Value
If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Belief Reason Yourself
Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Day Death Inspirational Live Yourself
Many a truth is told in jest.
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Comedy Joke One Liner Talk Truth
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
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking

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