Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt 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.
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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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