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.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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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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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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