Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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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May you live all the days of your life.
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The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora’s box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
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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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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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I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Don’t set your wit against a child.
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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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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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