Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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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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