There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery dog must have his day.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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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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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Every dog must have his day.
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