I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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