Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFTArgument is the worst sort of conversation.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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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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May you live all the days of your life.
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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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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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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