It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
JONATHAN SWIFTNo wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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