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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Jonathan Swift

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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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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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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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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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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