There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFT
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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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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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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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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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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.
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Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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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.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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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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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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