A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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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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