Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
From Jonathan Swift
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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.
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.
Books, the children of the brain.
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.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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