Books, the children of the brain.
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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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Vision is seeing the invisible.
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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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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.
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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’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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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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