Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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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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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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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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