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.
JONATHAN SWIFTI said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I’m as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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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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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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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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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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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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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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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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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
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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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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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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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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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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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