There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
JONATHAN SWIFTEveryone desires long life, not one old age.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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 computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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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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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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