We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFTWhen I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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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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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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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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