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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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