Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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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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