A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
JONATHAN SWIFTYou cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without 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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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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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.
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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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Perverseness is your whole defence.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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