A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFTA tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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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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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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 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.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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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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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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