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 SWIFTAlthough 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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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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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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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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