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.
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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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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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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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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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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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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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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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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