The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
JONATHAN SWIFTPolitics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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