It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFTFor 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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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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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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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