The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFTArgument is the worst sort of conversation.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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