It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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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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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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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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 the truth comes limping after it.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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 often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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