It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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 best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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The 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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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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