Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt 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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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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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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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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