If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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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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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
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Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.
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