Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
JONATHAN SWIFTThere 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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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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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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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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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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