Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
JONATHAN SWIFTNothing 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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Every dog must have his day.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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