I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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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 the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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