It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Every dog must have his day.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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