I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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For 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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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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