Many a truth is told in jest.
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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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