Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.
JONATHAN SWIFTIf you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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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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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
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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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And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
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Every dog must have his day.
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