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" The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome. "
Jonathan Swift
Cannot
Ought
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" For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. "
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" There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency. "
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" It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. "
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Done
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" Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride. "
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" My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool. "
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" Books, the children of the brain. "
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" The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. "
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" Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. "
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Seeing
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" A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. "
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Money
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" Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. "
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Rules
Together
" Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind. "
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Words
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" Don't set your wit against a child. "
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Against
Child
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" 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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Information
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" I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. "
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Country
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" One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good. "
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