If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFTWords are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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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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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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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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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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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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