Don’t set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFTPositiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.
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Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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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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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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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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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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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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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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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.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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