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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Jonathan Swift

If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Belief Reason Yourself
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Age Discover Reading Thinking Tired
May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Day Life Live Yourself
Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Devil Father Greatness Himself Improvement Invention Lost Reputation
Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Despair Hate Myself Proud
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Bad Flattery Flirty Greatness Offend Praise Yourself
I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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Greatness Man Morning Success Worth
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.
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Alone Company Deep People Wisdom
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Gold Man Strength Weakness
Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.
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Fast One Liner Slow Talk Thinking
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.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Compare Equality Man Myself Reflection
There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Consistency One Liner World
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
Don’t set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Children One Liner
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Design Evil Impossible Kind Man Natural Necessary

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