The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo 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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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