How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
JONATHAN SWIFTArgument is the worst sort of conversation.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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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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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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