Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe 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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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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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