The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
JONATHAN SWIFTA tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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