It is a maxim very generally received, that a man of great wit has a very short memory.
Gulliver's Travels
It is a maxim very generally received, that a man of great wit has a very short memory.
Gulliver's Travels
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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."
Strange & Unusual"Fine words! I wonder where you stole them."
Humorous"The greatest inventions were at first but the objects of ridicule."
Humorous"I have been for some years past, as I hope to be for some years to come, a constant visitor of the sick, and a constant observer of the dying."
Strange & Unusual"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
Strange & Unusual