There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFTThe stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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