Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
From Jonathan Swift
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.
The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
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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