It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTWise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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