Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFTAy, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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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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There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Every dog must have his day.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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