You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTReligion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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