"Every dog must have his day."
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"The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking."
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"Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it."
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"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."
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"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."
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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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"Many a truth is told in jest."
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"A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle."
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"The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting."
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"A nice man is a man of nasty ideas."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice."
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"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
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"... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers."
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"Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder."
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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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"They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives."
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"I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."
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"As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold."
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"I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth."
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