Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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It 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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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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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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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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