Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
JONATHAN SWIFTPromises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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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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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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