Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
JONATHAN SWIFTI said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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