It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
JONATHAN SWIFTThis 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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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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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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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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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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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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