War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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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 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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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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