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.
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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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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