A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFTPromises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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