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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

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Body Difference Hope Opinion Philosophy
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
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Despair Hate Myself Proud
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Appearance Discover Face
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
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Fake Philosophy Truth
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
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Learning Wind Word

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