Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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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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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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The 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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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