Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Falsehood 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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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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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