Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
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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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Every dog must have his day.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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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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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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