One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt 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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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