You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTArgument is the worst sort of conversation.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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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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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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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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Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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