Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFTPhysicians 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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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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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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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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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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