Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFTGood manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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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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