Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery dog must have his day.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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