You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Every dog must have his day.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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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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