Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFTArgument is the worst sort of conversation.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.
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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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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
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The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.
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