No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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I 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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Good 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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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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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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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