When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFTYou cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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.
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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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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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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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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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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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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