Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
JONATHAN SWIFTAlthough men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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