The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFTPhysicians 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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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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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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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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