Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFTPromises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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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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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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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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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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