Many a truth is told in jest.
JONATHAN SWIFTThat the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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