Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFTBooks, the children of the brain.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Every dog must have his day.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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