An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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.Jonathan Swift
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller fleas to bite em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet, in his kind, Is bit by him that comes behind.
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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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Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage and they were always mortal enemies
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