Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
JONATHAN SWIFTGood 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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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