When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood 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.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
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May you live all the days of your life.
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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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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Books, the children of the brain.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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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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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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