Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFTYou cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Every dog must have his day.
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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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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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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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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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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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I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
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War: that mad game the world so loves to play.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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