Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
JONATHAN SWIFTBrisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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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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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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Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
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It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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