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 SWIFT
Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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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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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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