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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

Jonathan Swift

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Talk Wild
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
Every dog must have his day.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Dog One Liner
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ideas Man One Liner
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Genius Himself True
Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Argument Conversation One Liner Worst
It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Break End Person Time
It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Hard Man Praise Vice Virtue
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Head Heart Man Wisdom
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Gold Man Strength Weakness
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Madness Place Price Sold
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Blind Eyes See
Don’t set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Children One Liner

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