"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes."

-- Jonathan Swift

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“I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.”
“There is no exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.”
“I would like to write you so simply, so simply, so simply. Without having anything ever catch the eye, excepting yours alone, ... so that above all the language remains self-evidently secret, as if it were being invented at every step, and as if it were burning immediately”
“Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition, only it is frequently less apparent, and we give ourselves but little trouble to discover it.”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.155
“But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.”
“The number one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule and you will be sorry.”
“I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.”
“Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.”

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